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I'm personally quite happy with one stable release every two years, and
am of the opinion that trying to release more will mean we'll have to
rename the distro from "stable" to "wobbly".
-- Scott James Remnant on debian-devel, as quoted by /usr/games/fortune
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I drank too much at LondonFurs and forgot all the songs I knew so had to make it up on the spot lol

📸 @jamiethemagpie.bsky.social

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@pippin Impromptu accordion jam, that's something you don't see every day. ;)
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Got a call with Caller ID saying it's from my Credit Union.

They told me there was an account breach. In a very Indian accent.

I asked if it was a breach or an incident.

He told me it was a breach.

I asked what of my data had been exfiltrated.

He said third parties had access to all of my personal info and that they needed to verify some of my information before resuming with the disclosures.

I told him I would call my credit union back to make sure there was a legit problem.

"Sir, you must read the caller ID, we are from your credit union!"

Yeah, Caller ID can be spoofed. Both number and name. AAMOF, I have an app I've done it with as a prank.

<click>

Just remember, folks, Caller ID name and number CAN be spoofed. Always tell someone who claims to be from a financial institution that you'll call them back.

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oshy akkoma (AP)
Just a heads up to never even pick up these kinds of calls, even just picking up, they are getting you in on their scam because now they know your number is active and they sell active numbers to other scammers and phone botters
LeoBurr mastodon (AP)
@oshy The number was actually my credit union’s, and Caller ID stated it as such. You missed that part.
@oshy

KEENE: Things look rather bad, sir. What are we going to do?
SIDNEY: "Do" captain!? We're British. We won't do anything.
SHORTHOUSE: Until it's too late.
SIDNEY: Precisely. That's the first sensible thing you've said today.
SHORTHOUSE: Thank you, sir.
SIDNEY: No, gentlemen. As always, we will carry on as if nothing were going to happen.
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It’s been 6 months since I got the phone call that changed a lot of things in my life. I might have been sent to a really low place in the aftermath but I have grown and processed past trauma and still continue to do so for my future, whether people join me or not.

📸 - Ryker

#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay

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Pippin friendica

I don't know what the phone call was, but I hope things are okay. *hug*

(Resharing for the photo, not the text.)


Pippin friendica

Hurrah. I think I've established that the spare RAM I have sitting in a box is not compatible with the server I was planning to put it in (at least, alongside the other RAM it's already got), so that saves a job.

To be specific, the machine currently has 48GB in 6 sticks and I have another 48GB in 12 sticks, so I could have doubled its capacity without buying anything, which would be nice, but I'm pretty sure now that the current RAM is RDIMMs and the spare RAM is UDIMMs, and the machine can't have mixed DIMM types, so that's that. Someday I might grab 24×32GB off ebay and max this server out with 768GB total (or maybe cheap out and go to 24×16GB for 384GB total), but… not today!


Content warning: USPol

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Arakin mastodon (AP)

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‘The #Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack #Polanski took over as leader last month.

It puts them on a potential course to overtake the #Tories and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the #LibDems in membership number’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/12/green-party-reaches-100000-members-for-first-time-after-polanski-becomes-leader

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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

‘The #Greens’ surge has caused worries among some senior #Labour figures, who believe it could take votes and seats from the party in next May’s local elections in England, particularly in some London boroughs.’

Maybe if #Starmer actually implemented some of his manifesto promises, stood up to rightwing autocrats and tech bros rather than invite them into the heart of government and stopped creating the system architecture to enable fascism to thrive come 2029, then he’d have a claim to votes.

Jna💚 mastodon (AP)
labour has shafted children, old people as well as telling the dissatisfied to go. Now they are worried about votes? It is a bit late. Ex labour members have found somewhere to go! The Greens have hit 105 000 members! Me, I love a bit of schadenfreude!
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Justin Macleod mastodon (AP)
Good for them!

Finished another lap around the sun! Thanks for the birthday wishes so far y’all!

#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay

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adds mastodon (AP)
happy birthday
l4p1n mastodon (AP)
Happy birthday !
(a bit late)

RAWR! Rezz gonna turn the synthwave up to 11! 💜 #FursuitFriday

Rezz - https://www.roofur.com/
Hoodie - https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ApoxonIndustries
Shirt - https://www.gryphwear.com/

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My readings indicate that it is 'a heckin' cutie'.

Happy #fursuitfriday !

💛 @azakir
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 Zuki Photography
🌍 Anthro Irish 2025

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Welcome to #FursuitFriday! Would you like to check in now for your weekend of floofs and fun?

🧵 @Cassius
📅 #Pawsome2025

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Soatok Dreamseeker mastodon (AP)
sheesh, what a cutie

Reach out, touch faith, touch base.
Check in, care for and love one another.

📸 - seadragon_350 (ig)

#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay #fursuitfriday

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SociaBuzz.com mastodon (AP)
@BlueF The blue fursuit looks adorable and full of energy. Thank you for the reminder to check on each other ☺ops@fox.yt

Skintight Chee mastodon (AP)
Rezz says it's still #WetsuitWednesday! ^^
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The stupid thing about our economy is that I shouldn't HAVE to worry about the AI bubble bursting. Why do the innocent have to suffer because of rich people's toys breaking?
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<philpem> isn't amd64 a third-party 64-bit patch on a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit enhancement of an 8-bit processor, originally derived from a 4-bit calculator chip by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition?
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kevin flynn canonically uses vi instead of emacs

#vim #vi #emacs #tron #TronLegacy

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Does this affirm your vim preference? Lol
splatt9990 mastodon (AP)
technically, he logs into root (or possibly an account called 'backdoor'?) before checking history so that means that whoever was using the account before that used Vi, not necessarily Kevin Flynn.

There are very few books I regret getting rid of, but I have one big regret. I used to have a nice collection of about a dozen “Jeeves and Wooster” books by PG Wodehouse, hardcover editions on nice paper. I had read them all and figured I’d rather have the shelf space back so I sold them to Half Price Books ages ago. I miss them. They are infinitely re-readable. If you haven’t ever read any of them I highly encourage it. Biting wit and humor at the expense of 1920s and 1930s upper class Britain.
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Tilton Raccoon mastodon (AP)
I also recommend the 1990–1993 television series with Hugh Laurie as the perfect Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as the perfect Jeeves. Top notch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BZ0je7I90E
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Tilton Raccoon mastodon (AP)

This is the single best and most terrifying explanation of the AI bubble I have seen so far. Holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCujAQtdfQ

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LoranSkunky mastodon (AP)
That’s just nuts. When it finally pops, it’s going to pop so hard.
Tamtam mastodon (AP)
nothign new. Economy is running onsuch scemes for decades now. How else could we keep depletign and destroying while making a few pole ever richer?

Pippin friendica
Any ideas what a good (cost-effective) way to get a virtual postal address in the UK is, so I can put it on business forms etc without having to give out my home address? P.O. Boxes are the standard answer, but they are £45/month which seems a lot for something that will receive maybe one piece of post a year, if that. Looking at web sites for https://www.mbe.co.uk/, https://www.ukpostbox.com/ and https://www.postgrid.co.uk/ as well but I've no idea how trustworthy any of these kind of things might be.
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TheDragon 🔥 mastodon (AP)
I once looked into this for myself (due to living in flats + lack of trust) but the cost of services I found were around a similar price point. Be interested to hear if you find anywhere cheaper :neocat_thumbsup:
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Pippin friendica
@TheDragon 🔥 One of my clients has just suggested https://www.hoxtonmix.com/, which is "only" £19/month so it wins over Royal Mail on price at least. He's used them for some years and recommends them as reliable, receiving and scanning mail, so that's a win over the random search results I found, where I have no idea about reliability. £19 is still more than I'd like really but… eh, maybe I just have to pay for privacy. 😕
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Pippin friendica
Wot I dun today: planted a tree! "During" and "after" photos attached. I then poured a nearly-full washing-up bowl of water onto it from one of the water butts. Hopefully I haven't drowned it - I'm sure I've read many times that you need to give plants a lot of water when you plant them out.
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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW injury

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Pippin friendica
Well, happily I haven't developed any blisters on my hands after all, and the tree seems to be happy enough - at least, it still has plenty of green leaves. Hurrah.
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Pippin friendica

"Wot I dun", last Thursday's edition: I think I've found out why 8 consecutive keys on my late uncle's digital piano keyboard don't work. While following traces on one of they keyboard PCBs I brushed away what seemed like a bit of blue-green dirt, only to find a little gap in the track underneath. I think the "dirt" must have been a crystal of corroded copper! The 8 keys the trace connects to are the ones that don't work, so I may have found the problem. Now just need to solder a bit of wire on to fix it. (Not sure I'm even going to try just bridging the gap with solder because it's in an area with lots of very tiny tracks very close together and I can barely see the individual tracks without a loupe. But either side are sparser areas where I should be able to solder a wire without too much trouble.)

My aunt has lamented that she didn't know while my uncle was alive that it was something I'd be able to fix. I didn't even know while he was alive that there was something wrong with it that needed fixing - apparently he was good at playing tunes that avoided those particular keys.

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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

“Even today, when the planet is dark, there still is hope. Don’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing,” she said.

“And if you want to save what is still beautiful in this world – if you want to save the planet for the future generations, your grandchildren, their grandchildren – then think about the actions you take each day. Because, multiplied a million, a billion times, even small actions will make for great change.”

Jane Goodall

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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

“You can imagine who I’d put on that spaceship. Along with #Musk would be Trump and some of #Trump’s real supporters.

And then I would put [Russian president Vladimir] #Putin in there, and I would put [China’s] President #Xi. I’d certainly put [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] #Netanyahu in there and his far-right government. Put them all on that spaceship and send them off.”

#JaneGoodall

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/06/jane-goodall-trump-elon-musk-putin

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Shamelessly stolen. I'm not sure I have ADHD but I surely have terrible burnout. I don't think I talk to anyone who'd say they didn't.

Anyway, I find myself naturally doing pretty much all of these things. I'm really trying to simplify my life, and being okay with just doing that "one thing" per day.

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Bad Apple over SSH:

ssh badapple@ansi.rya.nc

I'll add subtitles (thanks @foone) in a bit.

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Tursilion mastodon (AP)
It was watching these SSH videos that convinced me Classic99 could be made to run over SSH. Only done proof of concept so far, but it's cool to see.

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hm, I wonder if A/V sync is off, because the DONK for the final question prompt sounds a good four seconds before the frame it appears in Firefox
@LionsPhil ugh. that was fine before the last reencode or two

https://youtu.be/69zYYgFhFOg
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Found these valuable, so sharing!
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I'd sacrifice quite a bit to live in an environment with a high degree of sensory sameness
TheDragon 🔥 mastodon (AP)

@surfhosting

I totally get what you mean, and feel fortunate to have that luxury, and equally sad that others don't have access to the same.

I've honestly learnt more about myself in the past few years via fedi, than I have in my entire life!

When I got diagnosed, I was told I'd have access to support as I grew up... Sadly when I needed it, I was turned away.

Given how little benefit I got via "the system", I'm not convinced exploring whether I fit AuDHD (formally) is even worthwhile.

Especially given the huge waiting list, and me joining wouldn't only lengthen it for others.

I missed this notification originally, but anyway the main reason I might push to get diagnosed is to potentially have a reason to not get kicked off Medicaid and/or SNAP (US medical & food benefits) if I'm still not sufficiently able to work when the new rules come into effect. After I lost my home, my sensory issues have made it very difficult to work consistently while living in other people's houses.

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jamesb (MW1CGG) gotosocial (AP)

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Ret mastodon (AP)

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jamesb (MW1CGG) gotosocial (AP)

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Ret mastodon (AP)

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jamesb (MW1CGG) gotosocial (AP)

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jamesb (MW1CGG) gotosocial (AP)

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Ret mastodon (AP)

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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)

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Neotheta mastodon (AP)

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Aatheus mastodon (AP)

Had a blast fursuiting in Sydney PEI on the #furrycruise

Thank you so much KeetCollie and our cruise group coordinator for making it possible.

#furry #fursuit #suitinginpublic #bat #furrycruise

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

This is probably the best description of the internet I've ever heard.
And it's musical, so #Musicofthemoment tonight is "Welcome to the Internet" by Bo Burnham.

Apple Music,

https://music.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-the-internet/1626303827?i=1626305496

YouTube,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

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Lounging werewolf, #WPAFW 2025, waiting for the kaiju stomp event. The weird thing in front of me was one of several inflatable balls that were being tossed back and forth.

📷 Nova Drox

#FursuitFriday #Werewolf

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CheRosach mastodon (AP)
A private army
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